gracie

maturing is realizing that chrollo will always be doomed, that he will become a villain no matter where he is born. maturing is also realizing that the phantom troupe or some group similar to the spiders was bound to form in meteor city no matter what.

I forgot that Lestat was only 12 when he was dragged back home from the monastery. And this pervasive feeling he has of being unlovable, of people being angry with him and him not understanding it so obviously come from being abused as a small child, and how he has no words to understand it yet

It’s kind of hilarious they had the experience of taking your daughter to Ikea to pick out her first grown up bed, but in a funeral parlour.

“Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. When you look up the stage directions, it says, ‘Exit Ariel.’”